Muchas gracias!!

I finally did it. PhD defended!!!

These years have been a wild rollercoaster of emotions and hard work, but seeing the final result makes it all worth it. Beyond proud of this achievement.

Dr. Campos has entered the building.

Curious about how polyploidy shapes plant evolution and adaptation? 🌿
Our lab is looking for postdoc candidates to apply for the Juan de la Cierva fellowship (PhD awarded between Jan 2024 – Dec 2025) through @ageinves.bsky.social
Join us to explore ecology, and evolution in polyploid plants! ✨

Genome-wide selection on transposable elements in maize While most evolutionary research has focused on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), transposable elements (TEs) represent a major but understudied source of mutations that can influence organismal...

Really nice study on the evolutionary dynamics of TEs in maize by @jrossibarra.bsky.social and colleagues 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌿 El congreso #SEBOT2025 ha reunido en la #UPO a la comunidad científica y amantes de la #botánica para reflexionar sobre la diversidad vegetal y el futuro de su conservación.

👏 Gracias a todos y todas las participantes por convertir Sevilla en el epicentro de la botánica durante estos días.

@minutoides.bsky.social hoy en #SEBOT25 contándonos sobre sus Brachypodium anuales y el trabajo que conlleva el estudio de sus pangemonas!

#iamabotanist #herbarium #botany2025

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/beast-dev/be...

What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy

A little piece of my PhD journey was shared today at #IBRC2025! I presented insights into the population genomics and evolutionary origins of Brachypodium hybridum, and offered a glimpse into my ongoing work on the pangenome of B. stacei.

Thanks to everyone who joined the session!

A Palearctic divide, niche conservatism and host-fungal endophyte interactions shaped the phylogeography of the grass Brachypodium sylvaticum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....

Exploring genomic diversity and reproductive strategies in three expansion phases of the superdominant Brachypodium rupestre in high mountain grasslands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity - Nature Genetics A long- and short-read barley pan-transcriptome assembled from 20 diverse barley genotypes offers insights into genotype- and tissue-dependent gene expression and function.

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this impressive potato genome (graph) study, with @zbao.bsky.social as co-first author! I especially liked the authors' idea of a 'broken window' effect of deleterious SVs, which seem to attract more deleterious mutations (SVs and SNPs) nearby.
#plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last!

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology; Engineering Plastids for Better Crops and New Functions Sun 30 Mar, 5:00 PM - Fri 4 Apr, 9:00 AM [EDT]: The Chloroplast Biotechnology GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the…

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology; Engineering Plastids for Better Crops and New Functions🌱

👉eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/...

#PlantScience

A figure comparing box plot and showing all data points. Group1: normally distributed data. Group2: bimodal data. Group3: Data with 3 modes.

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?

#DataVisualization

github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Hey there, revolutionaries of Bluesky!

I'm Miguel, an evolutionary biologist currently doing my PhD at the Unizar. My work focuses on whole genome analyses, gene expression data in Mediterranean species 🌾.

Here's a glimpse of a Brachypodium hybridum from our experimental garden at EPSH!!